saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert from belfast. thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight. and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. politics is something integral. youtube. is like how i started my journalism, it began on youtube, we are fighting a war on multiple fronts, we're fighting one media, we're fighting on the ground, but it it's it's it's a collective effort, we are at war, the west has habit of stealing the religions of the middle east and then weaponizing them against the people of the middle east, the americans, the israelis, uh, the united kingdom do not respect the value of human life. so, we all have to be soldiers on the front line, we have to keep fighting. i want to speak directly to uh people in gaza, people in the west bank. victory will come. victory will come. victory will come. your press tv headlines has well avows a strong response to israel's terrorist operations in lebanon, which are claim the lives of over 30 people. iran's president says israel's western backer

let's bring sap shath, author and commentator and west asia expert who joins from belfast. sab shath, welcome. so, condolences, i haven't spoken to you uh, and uh, i'm very curious just to find out what your thoughts are about the this unfortunate assassination that has taken place and where uh lebanon will be move. moving to given the retaliation that is anticipated and what form and manner do you think that will be? i just want my condolences to the whole lebanese people and arab people and muslim people and the free people of the world since late uh was not just resistant leader, he was iconic man for the whole. internationally against imperialism and against colonialism, that man legacy will stay with us for a long, long time to come, since his speeches were like guiding torches for us in this dark uh time, and uh the uh the man paid his price, the price of his life, to stay in support when he took the most he and the lebanese resistant took the the noble position of supporting the people in palestine elevate some of the pressure which this mad dogs of the design entity supported

saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert joining us live from belfast. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen. let's begin with our guest from beirot, how do you see these acts of terrorism? that's the only way it can be described, but how do you interpret israel's long history of covert operation? um, does this indicate some kind of policy, a larger policy, agenda, which the israelis are after? do all of these acts of terrorism fall in the same line, forming a bigger agenda? well, as you've described it, it's uh, it's only blatant acts of terror. this is what the israeli regime was. founded upon, even way before its beginnings, such, well what they like to call them security operations were quite the known for the israelis, this is this is what enabled israel, pure act of terror, it's it's something they actually have in common with isis, the fact that they use terror, demoralization in order to get to their ends, so these act in and of themselves, if you take them out of context and... study how they came to be and what were the determinants that

saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert joining us live from belfast. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen, let's begin with our guest from beirot, uh, how do you uh see these? acts of terrorism, that's the only way it can be described, but how do you interpret israel's long history of uh covert operations, um, does this indicate some kind of um policy, a larger policy, agenda, which the israelis are after? do all of these acts of terrorism fall in the same line forming a bigger agenda? well, as you've described it, it's uh, it's only blatant acts of terror. this is what the israel regime was founded upon, even way before its beginnings, such, well, what they like to call them security operations were quite the known for the israelis. this is, this is what enabled israel, pure acts of terror. it's it's something they actually have in common with isis, the fact that they use terror, demoralization. in order to get to their ends, so these acts in and of themselves, if you take them out of context and not study how they came to be, and what were th

welcome my guests to the program. ali hamy academic and political analyst out of south lebanon and sab shath, author, commentator and west asia expert out of belfast. well, thank you both for being with us. i'm going to start off uh with alie. so ali, is it correct? you're in south lebanon right now? yes, i am. okay, so let me start off right there. why are you in south lebanon? why haven't you left that area? well, first thanks for having me with you. thanks for coming. thank you. i would like to say that exactly what the person said from south lebanon, we will not leave, and if you see so many people left south lebanon is is not. majority, most of the lebanese still stand still in south lebanon and they are ready, um, they are ready to fight for, and against any invasion, may the israeli think about it in support of hisbullah, so we are all, we are all under the call of his eminent, sad hasan nasrullah, and we will never leave our place, you know, about 10 minutes. ago my village here received two big hit aggression attack from israeli raid by fighter jets and we stand still and as you see

all these things okay hopefully okay thank you so much we're out of time uh thank you my guests s shath and belfist ken stone and hamilton. and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on press tv, i've been your host nag, see you next time, this is about people who got silenced but kept fighting, supervision and controlling of freedom. speech only comes up when you're criticizing israel, 45 palestin journalists behind israeli bars at the moment, they warn students that if they remain here they will be arrested, this is about the voices of palestine. most of them without charge or a criminal trial, it's very easy to do whatever they want to do with this prisoners without anybody looking, supervisising or controlling what's happening. since then, reports of secret detentions, torture, and suicides have hit the headlines time and time again. i was being dragged through the mud by american soldiers and being punched and kicked and stripped naked again and photographed and shackled and spat on, so that's gitmo. this is an exclusive report on gitmo, only on press tv. more civilia

thanks, okay, hopefully, okay, thank you so much, we're out of time, uh, thank you my guests s shath and belfast, ken stone and hamilton, and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on press cv, i've been your host behrus, i'll see you next time. the siege of gaza must end, allahu ekber, allahu ekber. "we're coming back and we'll keep coming back until palestine is free." for decades, women in the united states have been fighting uphill battle against gender inequality, and yet they have a long way to go, the culture of violence. against women is still reflected in domestic violence and sexual harassment. every 9 seconds, one woman is battered in america, while one out of three women in the country has experienced violence from her husband or partner. we will not be beaten soon on press tv. headlines on press tv: more civilians fall victim to israel's indiscriminate bombing and shelling in gaza. the overall death toll surpassing 40,800. three more palestinian children are killed as israel continues its military incursions across the occupied west bank for the seventh day

saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert from belfast, thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight, and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. الجهاد الكبير الحاج قئاس نور الحورى لكن الدعم شيء مقدر جدا لا شك ان لازلنا امام وضع خطير. خرق حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني استباحه مقدسه. the headlines, at least 14 people are killed as a second wave of device explosions at lebanon, only day after hundreds of pageers exploded in an israeli terror attack. iran's president says israel's western back. should feel ashamed for backing the killings and indiscriminate assassinations of the regime, and the israeli military says four soldiers were killed and several more injured in combat in southern ghaza. hello and welcome, you're watching world news on press tv, coming to you live from our headquarters in tehran. thank you for joining us, my name is gisumi shah ahmadi and these are top stories this hour. at least 14 people are killed and hundreds others injured in a second wave of device explosions hit that hit lebanon. only day after hundreds of pages used

program. out of riz political analysts and out of belfast, author commentator and west asia expert, saib shath. welcome both of you to the... program i'd like to start off in beirot, i mean your thoughts, radan, when the hezbulah deputy chief says of the war or the uh retaliation has enter new phase, what do you think this means? well, i, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war. either we admit that or not, since the 8th of october in order to support the gaza resistance, palestinian resistance in gaza, so now the lebanese resistance are involved since the 8th of october and it's legitimate for the lebanese to support their allies or their the their... the the uh the the the palestinian fighters in in palestine because after all we are fighting the same enemy for the same cause and the uh we all know understand that the israelis were preparing themselves since years ago to invade the southern lebanon in order to push back the hizballah from northern litani river so it's a war taking place, escalati

these things. okay, hopefully. okay, thank you so much, we're out of time. uh, thank you my guests s shath the spotlight on press tv. i've been your host final see you next. i don't win many awards in my own country so i'm a bit shocked, firstly like to thank the iranian people for uh welcoming, welcoming me into your beautiful country. i want to tell you, all people in this room, storytellers, truth tellers, we cannot fake in emotion, we cannot fake the truth, this is for every child, mother and father who are lost by us made weapons and uk made weapons and european made weapons in our palace. the second sub international media festival. "thatlines israel's attacks claim more civilian lives across gaza with a genocidal war's death tool exceeds 40,800. israelis hold new protest demanding a cease fire deal with hamas to release the captives held in gaza.

thank you my guests s shath and belfast, ken stone and hamilton.thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on press cv. i've been your host. i'll see you next time. mr. speaker, i want to thank you for giving me the profound honor of addressing this great citidal of democracy for the fourth time. he pretends to see clearly i could quote the bible but that's just for show it's occupation versus civilization as you know accusations by confession the truths we win they lose anymore this is too tight just not as it in the dead of the night we're criminals in truth but that's gentlemen in the headlight suddenly heaven turned into hell we race the homes gave to order the shell bob schools tells there's more to tell, not just that, hospitals fell as well, thank you madams and sirs for funding this hell, i thank president for his heart support for israel supporting me, even when his talk's not right they killed with rage air of women kids in the prime gods is an open air cage living off time on the way they swor the cr so we pingges encourage in

saib shath, if you could please tell us how how is it possible to balance israel's claim to have the right to defend itself, with such acts of terrorism, booby trapping uh objects that are of daily use of ordinary civilians, such as this uh pajor incident that we witnessed. happening in lebanon? to start with on the level of international law, right to right to self defense when you are an equipier? is denied, so the zinest entity occurying farms of shabha and parts of lebanon, apart from talking about the whole historical of palestine and the golan heights and others, so this idea of self defense is a manufactured lie by united states of america and the west to impose that on the back of the international law which have no illegal legal exist whatsoever. saying that this all operation of attacking civilians by rogue state a mass terror deploying a mass terror techniques uh it came on the back of the on the 25th of august when the lebanese resistant targeted the the intelligence units in galilot base in the serbart of tel aviv and this is ' "it's a message by this intelligence saying

saib shath joining us there out of belfast, stay safe, we'll talk to you soon. joining us now is uh bruce cats uh co-president at palestinian and jewish unity. before we go get to uh bruce, we're going to give him a chance to get set up. we're going to come back. back to you uh mosen, i want you to answer uh the same thing if you could please mosin, how what is the regime after by now uh instead of opting we mentioned for that seesfire, multiple seasfires put an end to everything for more escalation against everyone's wishes including its allies into lebanon and possible regional war. do you agree with what mr saib shoth or do you have a particularly a different take on this? um i can i do ag with part of what the brother said, um, but i was slightly buse, this is our analysis at this point right, we don't, we don't have concrete evidence to the intentions of the regime, but the analysis is that i would slightly, if i can give a different perspective in in my opinion, there is a reason why the access has been retaliating within certain parameters and limits, eve

otherwise, we look ahead to your shath. really warm temperatures for the southeast and strong storms for the middle of the country lansing into your weekend. otherwise, a really nice day for much of the east. 0 degrees. upper 80s with mostly sunny skies in new orleans. showers and thunderstorms in orlando. that's a look at your forecast, frances, back to you. >> appreciate that, angie. >>> coming up, new details about the oregon-bound flight forced to make an emergency landing. what caused the injuries to passengers. o passengers. honey. nyquil severe honey. powerful cold and flu relief with a dreamy honey taste nyquil honey, my life is full of questions... how do i clean an aioli stain? use tide. do i need to pretreat guacamole? not with tide. why do we even buy napkins? thankfully, tide's the answer to almost all of them. —do crabs have eyebrows? —except that one. for all of life's laundry questions... it's got to be tide. ahh, yellow! didn't pass the tissue test? buckle up! whoa! there's toothpaste white, and there's cre

saib shath, we know that, because he mentioned this too, uh, as far as us leadership and their complicity and and their uh, their stance, their position when it comes to... the gaza genocide and and the escalation and lebanon uh, what what are we to call it? because it seems like the biden administration uh, didn't want to see escalation into lebanese territory, wanted to see a cease fire in gaza, it got neither, but it keeps giving billions of dollars worth of weapons to the regime, iron clad support is all we we hear out of the white house while we hear a bunch of supposedly behind the curtain and and behind the scenes a condemnation of netanyahu of his approach of his campaign of genocide of his protraction for 11 months and obvious transference over into lebanese soil. we also know that trump in in his first term basically uh came into presidency on the ticket that he's going to get the troops us troops out of uh iraq and afghanistan he did so in afghanistan and to a degree in iraq but um at least he struck the deal and then biden uh made a mess of getting him out but um make a long s

lebanese uh capital capitals of southern uh suburbs and eric walberg is also joining us along with saib shath out of belfast and eric walberg out of toronto eric um the israeli regime is ordered over three huge neighborhoods of beirot to completely evacuate there's already million people displaced in lebanon over the last seven days over a thousand people killed by the israeli regime over 6,00 wounded eric over million lebanese fifth of the population displaced its religious six nightmare for lebanese authorities and now three neighborhoods, all the residents are being told to evacuate, it does not seem that this the regime is just going after exactly what we saw in gaza, it called it an operation against hamas, but we saw who who who bore the brunt of that operation for over 12 months now, so-called operation, everyone's calling it nothing short of a campaign of genocide against no one else but the women, children, the elderly, families of gaza, and now families in lebanon in the middle of the night are being told to immediately evacuate as the uh the regime plans to bomb entire neighborhood